What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineering Intern position at KQED?
This is a paid internship, working 16 hours per week from July 7th, 2025 through December 19th 2025. Current Salary is $19.18 per hour.
The KQED Product Team is responsible for designing and developing digital experiences for the kqed.org website, KQED mobile apps and Youth Media Challenges. Our Software Engineering Intern(s) will report to our Product Engineering Team to assist with projects for KQED and our Bay Area Community. This is a training and learning position which seeks to supplement the skill set of someone who is interested in either a coding boot camp or CS degree. We recognize that traditional CS training programs leave out fundamental organizational and management skills required for success of students and novice programmers. This internship program seeks to close that gap and provide our interns with core knowledge of the software development cycle as a whole, rather than coding alone.
KQED envisions a public media organization with a culture that centers on human dignity, equity, and belonging. This will enable us to better serve and reflect the Bay Area through diverse and inclusive storytelling.
We value the contributions of marginalized people in society — including Black, Indigenous, and all people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA people — and we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, and we strongly encourage members of these communities to apply.
The mission that drives us:
KQED provide citizens of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media. We provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the arts to everyone and engage audiences to share their stories. We help students and teachers thrive in 21st-century classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration- exposing them to new people, places and ideas.
This role requires working in KQED's newly renovated headquarters and working in the field.
Essential Functions:- Assist with planning and organization of our work duties using the Agile/Scrum methodology
- Review code and help conduct group code reviews and tech talks
- Research new technology and give reports
- Write documentation related to our code base and practices
- Contribute to the KQED code base (depending on skill level)
- Some familiarity with programming languages is necessary
- Basic or novice level knowledge is acceptable
- Ability to reason about technical matters
- Being able to learn new software, tools, and diagnostic methods is essential
- This position focuses on the glue that holds the software together, which is planning and organization
- Attention to detail and strong written and verbal communication skills are required
- As a team we all focus on training to develop our skills. Our training includes:
- Coding for Accessibility, HTML/CSS semantics
- Tech Talks (various CS subjects)
- We have a frontend/backend software training course that you may wish to take yourself
- Basic project planning and management
- After this internship you should be able to jump in with any agile team
- Elevation of your command line and programming skills
- Many of our tasks are via the command line and it is an essential tool of our trade
- Learning the development to deployment pipeline
- There are many steps to go from code to release
- This internship will expose you to a modern release lifecycle in it's entirety
We are a growing team of software engineers/developers who operate multiple properties (including kqed.org) and are always building new products on a modern stack. We work closely with our product team (who decides what we build) and our design team (who decides what it should look like and how it should behave). Our work is collaborative and input from all of our team members is a must.
Some of the technologies that we use are (but are not limited to):
- Node / React / Webpack / Babel / Yarn
- Kubernetes / Spinnaker / Docker
- Elasticsearch / Redis / MongoDB / MySQL
- Python / Java / Springboot / Rest APIs
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